GREAT VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL READING OLYMPICS
Reading Olympics Monthly Book List & Meetings for 2013-2014
October 2013: Evening meeting Thursday, Oct. 17; Lunchtime meetings Oct. 10 and Oct. 24
1.
The 100 Year-Old Secret by Tracy Barrett (mystery fiction)
2.
Buried Alive by Elaine Scott (nonfiction)
3.
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo (fantasy fiction)
4.
The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John Ritter (realistic fiction)
5.
The Stalker by Joan Lowry Nixon (mystery/horror fiction)
6.
Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman (nonfiction)
7.
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix (science fiction)
November 2013: Evening meeting Thursday, Nov. 14; Lunchtime meetings Nov. 7 & Nov. 21
1.
Ajeemah and His Son by James Berry (historical fiction)
2.
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson (nonfiction)
3.
Burning Up by Caroline Cooney (realistic fiction)
4.
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (mystery fiction)
5.
Schooled by Gordon Korman (realistic fiction)
6.
Leaving Protection by Will Hobbs (adventure fiction)
December 2013: No Evening meeting; Lunchtime meeting Dec. 17
1.
Inside Out and Back Again by Lai Thanhha (realistic fiction)
2
Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (historical fiction)
3.
The Candymakers by Wendy Mass (realistic fiction)
4.
Double Dutch by Sharon Draper (realistic fiction)
5.
Black Star, Bright Dawn by Scott O’Dell (historical fiction)
6.
Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin (nonfiction)
7.
Virals by Kathy Reichs (science fiction)
January 2014: Evening meeting Thursday, Jan. 16; Lunchtime meetings Jan. 9 and Jan. 23
1.
Countdown by Ben Mikaelson (realistic fiction)
2.
Say Goodnight Gracie by Julie Deaver (realistic fiction)
3.
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (realistic fiction)
4.
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science by John Fleischman (nonfiction)
5.
Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card (science fiction)
6.
Ruins of Gorlon by John Flanagan (fantasy fiction)
February 2014: Evening meeting Thursday, Feb. 13; Lunchtime meetings Feb. 6 & Feb. 20
1.
So B. It by Sarah Weeks (realistic fiction)
2.
Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz (adventure fiction)
3.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (nonfiction)
4.
Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories by Jon Scieszka (nonfiction)
5.
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer (science fiction)
6.
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins (fantasy fiction)
March 2014: Evening meeting Thursday, March 13; Lunchtime meetings March 6 & March 20
1.
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman (nonfiction)
2.
Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (fantasy fiction)
3.
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan (realistic fiction)
4.
The Giant and How He Humbugged America by Jim Murphy (nonfiction)
5.
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson (realistic fiction/free verse)
6.
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg (realistic fiction)
April 2014 Evening meeting Tuesday, Apr. 8; Lunchtime meetings Apr. 3 & Apr. 24
1.
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (historical fiction)
2.
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (realistic fiction)
3.
Notes from a Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick (realistic fiction)
4.
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy (historical fiction)
5.
December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn (realistic fiction)
6.
Dragon’s Keep by Janet Lee Carey (fantasy fiction)